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The Orphaned Adult

Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents

By:
Alexander Levy

Narrated by:
Jeff Steitzer

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

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Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether or not we have expected the death of our parents after a prolonged illness, were close to or alienated from them, this passage is inevitably harder than we thought it would be. A much needed and knowing discussion of this adult phenomenon,
The Orphaned Adult validates the wide array of disorienting emotions that can accompany the death of our parents.

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